Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of the past participle of see.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic spelling of
seine .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sein.
Examples
-
Saddam Hussein is a better leader than Diane Tebelius.
-
Schopenhauer's entire conception thus is diametrically opposed to Cartesianism's and classical liberalism's ontology of in-der-Welt-sein, which is built on the cogito as a self-originating and supposedly value-neutral point of departure.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
-
Even though the prescriptivists are using Latin as their model, English is also a Germanic language; and in German, the nominative (subjective) case is used after "sein" (to be), but after no other verb.
-
The verb "sein" (be) was very much distorted: _Warum warst du nicht fleissig gebist?
-
By lampenfieber» Blogarchiv » Heiliger Schein, das kann doch nur ne Lampe sein. on March 2, 2009 at 3: 59 pm
-
Ce serait un geste honorable qui ferait baisser la pression sur la ministre, et qui éviterait que la suspicion ne s'installe au sein du caucus adéquiste.
-
He said: "Arroganz ist die Kunst, auf seine eigene Dummheit stolz zu sein"—arrogance is the art to take pride in one's own stupidity.
-
There was one line of verse that had survived: Das ist was es ist allein zu sein.
-
Incidentally, I am rather tickled by the especially turgid German rendering of “Malo malo malo malo,” namely “Ich möchte lieber in einem Apfelbaum sein als ein schlechter Mann im Unglück,” which proves that strict case structure of a language does not necessarily guarantee anything remotely like concision.
-
Incidentally, I am rather tickled by the especially turgid German rendering of “Malo malo malo malo,” namely “Ich möchte lieber in einem Apfelbaum sein als ein schlechter Mann im Unglück,” which proves that strict case structure of a language does not necessarily guarantee anything remotely like concision.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.